Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan

Mar 30, 2012 11 comments

The Japanese love flowers, and wisteria are among their favorites. Wisteria (known as fuji in Japan) is said to be one of the archipelago's most ancient noted flowering trees, even being described in the collected poems of the Man'yoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves).

One of the best places to view fuji flowers is the Ashikaga Flower Park in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture. Ashikaga Flower Park features lots of blue, white and pink fuji, as well as yellow laburnum (Japanese: kingusari) that look like yellow colored fuji.

Three massive wisteria trellises extend for more than 1000 square meters, in addition to a large trellis of rare double-petaled wisteria. One large fuji tree is 100 years old and its branches are supported to create a huge umbrella of blue fuji flowers. There is also an 80-meter tunnel of white fuji flowers, while a tunnel of yellow kingusari needs a few more years to become an actual tunnel. Yae-fuji, a variety with more than the usual number of petals, can also be viewed.

Besides the fuji, you will find many other flowers, restaurants and a shop selling plants and local products. There are no English descriptions and very few foreign visitors. The entrance fee depends on the season's beauty and is around 1000 Yen per adult during the fuji peak season.

The fuji in Ashikaga Flower Park are usually in full bloom in the beginning of May, one to two weeks later than the fuji of Tokyo. Because Ashikaga Flower Park is considered one of the best spots to view fuji flowers in Japan, the park can be very crowded even on weekdays during the peak season.

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[via Japan Guide and LiveInternet]

Comments

  1. i want my wedding here!

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  2. WOW...breathtaking...I really want to see the world one day!!

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  3. Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Marvelous !I have seen fuji flowers and .... wow ! what a beautiful curtain like flower.

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  5. Amazing. I would love to visit this place.

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  6. AWESOME WANT TO GO THERE ONCE

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  7. wow...it's marvelous....

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  8. When are the flowers in full bloom? I don't want to go too early. Please help!

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  9. The beautiful wisteria tunnels are not in Ashikaga, men.

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